Cuerpo y persona

En tiempos de fuertes rechazos y dudas sobre la validez del proyecto europeo y, más aún, de afirmación generalizada de la decadencia de Occidente, Hacia la comprensión de Europa resulta un texto tan iluminador como cuando se publicó por vez primera en 1952, pues permite a los ciudadanos europeos "explicar lo que es Europa, qué derecho tiene a existir y cuáles son sus condiciones de supervivencia". A partir de la desazón que se apropió de la civilización occidental tras la catástrofe de los dos conflictos mundiales del siglo XX, y del posterior intento de reconstrucción a partir de ...

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In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual.

Unique among textbooks, Sobre Las Culturas Y Civilizaciones Latinoamericanas not only describes the history of Latin America, it sets a mood that allows the reader to get real sense of the languages, cultures, and civilizations that comprise this complex and colorful land. It provides an account of how Columbus's voyages gave rise to utopian dreams, the ramifications of which led to a brilliant display of hybrid cultures, changed the ethnic composition of two continents, accelerated lines of commerce, and refashioned the Western World's diet. After discussing the topographical features and...